Critics of Ball State University professor George Wolfe created this cartoon of him playing the saxophone while the World Trad Center burns.

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Seth Slabaugh
The Muncie Star Press

Ball State University music professor George Wolfe knows what it's like to be at the center of the nation's culture wars.

In 2004, during the second year of the U.S.-led war in Iraq, national right-wing political commentator David Horowitz accused Wolfe of supporting terrorists and indoctrinating students with a liberal, anti-military, anti-American political agenda. Horowitz included Wolfe in his book, "The Professors: The 101 Most Dangerous Academics in America."

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